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Re: mac80211: workqueue & RTNL lock

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On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 13:17 +0200, Ivo Van Doorn wrote:

> Well it was caused by the recent introduction of the interface iterator.
> Question now is if we need to restrict the usage, remove the flush_workqueue,
> or change the locking in the interface iterator. :S

Ouch. Any way you can use the atomic iterator there?

Or if not, can you use schedule_work and cancel_work_sync to take care
of things? I would like to keep the mac80211 workqueue rtnl-free because
otherwise locking is going to get ugly.

johannes

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